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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

It's the month of love so it only seems appropriate that I should make some romantically-themed cards for the occasion right?

The inspiration behind this card came from the newly released February Mood Board from Jot Magazine. It's full of pinks and reds and flowers and hearts. But to be honest, it was those marquee letters and the arrows which really caught my eye and I knew I wanted to include them in my design.

I admit that I kinda giggled to myself that I was using a stamp set that was clearly intended for Easter and turning it into a Valentine's Day card! But the way I made that work was to use a stamp out of the Neat and Tangled "Cotton Tail Cuties" set which reads 'hey chickie' and have that as my sentiment. I was simply going to have that alone but the temptation to add the word 'babe' to it got the better of me, and plus it was also my excuse to include the marquee letters from the Mood Board image into my card too! I've got a great set of alphabet dies from Sizzix which cut out these perfect 1" tall marquee letters, and luckily my girls have only lost a few of the numbers from the set, and I've still got the whole alphabet to play with ;-)

I really wanted my sentiment to ultimately read "Hey Chickie Babe!" - anyone of my age group here in Australia might remember that cult classic TV Show "All Together Now" where the character Bruno (?) would greet all the females in this way. But I couldn't make it work design-wise to have the 'hey chickie' above the 'babe' and so I made the decision to arrange it like this just because it looked better!

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I'm compelled to document my stories. I'm the self-appointed family memory keeper, taker of photographs and creator of scrapbooks! Here you'll find me blogging about my beautiful family, my crafty pursuits and my vocation as an Obstetrician in Melbourne Australia. I love them all, and there's a million stories to tell.....